American economists William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on understanding how economies can grow sustainably. Nordhaus, a professor at Yale University, is ...

🤖⏭ Nvidia’s surge hints at AI’s transformative potential. But what’s next? One of my favorite economics papers is “Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of ...

Economist William Nordhaus addresses the press Monday after winning the Nobel Prize. On a day when a new gloomy report emerged about the future of the planet, a ray of hope emerged in New Haven.

Climate Change Economics, Vol. 11, No. 4, Special Issue: Commemoration of Nobel Prize for William Nordhaus (2020), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) This paper begins with a tribute to William Nordhaus, focusing on ...

Eight Yale faculty members were elected as 2024 fellows at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS. Since 1874, the AAAS has annually selected a group of scientists to honor ...

Bjorn Lomborg maintains that U.N. climate reports predict intensive economic growth over the next century (“Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty?” op-ed, Oct. 7). But they don’t ...

The social cost of carbon (SCC) is defined as the sum of all long-term benefits and detriments of one additional metric ton of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. The US government has relied on three ...

George Gilder and Gale Pooley rightly note that a useful measure of how much things cost is how long we must work to earn enough to purchase them (“We Should Measure Prices in Time,” op-ed, April 17).

It will take some time to know the full scope of the damage caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Early estimates suggest Milton caused between $30 and 50 billion worth of insured losses; insurers ...